Geopolitics of the World System

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 435 pages
Written by one of the world's leading political geographers, this textbook examines the dramatic changes wrought by ideological and economic forces unleashed by the end of the Cold War. Saul B. Cohen considers these forces in the context of their human and physical settings and explores their geographical influence on foreign policy and international relations. Beginning with a survey of geopolitics and its practitioners, Saul Cohen explains geopolitical terms, structure, and theory. He traces the geopolitical restructuring of the world's different regions, its major powers, and the global networks that link them, thus creating a map of dynamic equilibrium. Cohen illustrates why those regions -the convergence of what he terms the Maritime, Heartlandic Russian, and East Asian realms -have become 'Gateways, ' while the Middle East remains a 'Shatterbelt' and much of South America and Sub-Saharan Africa have grown marginalized. The author argues that whether certain areas become Gateways or Shatterbelts is the key question influencing global stability. For example, the future of peripheral parts of the Eurasian Heartland -Eastern Europe, the Trans-Caucasus, and Central Asia -depends on whether the major powers adopt policies of accommodation or competition. Cohen analyzes especially the current forces favoring accommodation, including the economic benefits of globalization and the common battle against terrorism. Presenting a global spatial scope, the book considers the entire hierarchy of geopolitical units -subnational, national states, and quasi-states; geopolitical regions; and geostrategic realms. By emphasizing the interaction between geographical settings and changing ideological and economic forces, Cohen has succeeded in creating a new global geopolitical map.
 

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IV
1
V
11
VI
12
VII
28
VIII
29
IX
33
X
34
XI
53
XL
227
XLI
228
XLII
231
XLIII
233
XLIV
256
XLV
266
XLVI
271
XLVII
273

XII
58
XIII
59
XIV
61
XV
63
XVI
71
XVII
82
XVIII
86
XIX
87
XX
92
XXI
95
XXII
129
XXIII
137
XXIV
146
XXV
147
XXVI
149
XXVII
152
XXVIII
162
XXIX
173
XXX
178
XXXI
182
XXXII
183
XXXIII
185
XXXIV
187
XXXV
198
XXXVI
200
XXXVII
211
XXXVIII
214
XXXIX
220
XLVIII
274
XLIX
280
L
289
LI
297
LII
302
LIII
303
LIV
306
LV
312
LVI
321
LVII
325
LVIII
327
LIX
330
LX
333
LXI
341
LXII
350
LXIII
352
LXIV
357
LXV
359
LXVI
360
LXVII
363
LXVIII
373
LXIX
394
LXX
395
LXXI
397
LXXII
405
LXXIII
411
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À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Saul Bernard Cohen is professor emeritus of geography at Hunter College and past director of the Clark School of Geography.

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